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...the crazy never die.

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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
Autobiographer
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Journalist
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Politician
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
Crazy
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.
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The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.
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Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.
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Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.
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A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.
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Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.
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Hit him again, Jack! He's crazy!
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Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.
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I'll call New York for some cash.
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And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
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In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you're not. Love it or leave it.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.
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Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want
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Wake up and ponder the future
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Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears
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I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.
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